Project Support

    Along with its direct activities, CCJP engages in outreach and empowerment by providing funding to facilitate projects that further CCJP’s mission.

    Established in March of 2000, the Eileen Degen Award honors teacher of geography and long-time CCJP member Eileen Degen. The award provides financial support for projects which foster understanding of our relationship with and our responsibility for the local environment and which increase our knowledge of the earth with its variety of interdependent physical features and cultures.

    CCJP also awards project funding in other areas as describe in the guidelines (see below).

    Past project funding recipients include:

    Recipient: Campaign for Labor Rights
    Amount awarded: $500.00
    The Degen Award was given to assist the Rapid Action Network project, which mobilizes people on labor issues and elicits action in the form of letter writing, phone calls, and emails.

    Recipient: Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network
    Amount awarded: $500.00
    Funding was awarded to foster the Fair Trade and Globalization’s Worker Exchange Program, which enables Tennessee workers to travel to other countries to discuss working conditions and the goal of fair trade and global economic justice at the local level.

    Guidelines for Awarding Project Funding

    1. Priority shall be given to projects that contribute to the advancement of justice and peace.
      • That is, social, political, and economic justice, for the elimination of poverty, the elimination of discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual preference, and other forms of discrimination, the overcoming of oppression, and the helping of people to discover and exercise their power.
      • That is, the advancement of the cause of peace (with justice) in terms of reconciliation, but also in relation to non-violent protest and other action against those who promote war and other forms of unjust conflict.
    2. Given our commitment to thinking globally and acting locally, priority shall be given to projects in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee. This does not preclude consideration of projects located beyond the Cumberland Plateau.
    3. Priority shall be given to projects that can be helped toward the achievement of goals by relatively small financial backing; and to projects that can be started with modest funding, with prospects for more substantial funding from other sources once they are underway. Please note that CCJP typically awards project funding at or under $500.
    4. Priority shall be given to individuals and groups that, in the opinion of the Outreach and Support Committee and the Board, appear to be committed to and capable of fulfilling the project goals and objectives as specified on the project funding application form.
    5. Priority shall ordinarily be given to projects that benefit more than one or a few individuals. Priority shall be given to grassroots organizations, especially those with significant volunteer involvement.
    6. Priority will be given to requests for funding for projects of a specific nature and time duration, as opposed to continuous funding.
    7. We will fund projects administered by faith-based organizations as long as they are outreach programs and not proselytizing programs.
    Project funding applications will ordinarily be acted upon by the Board of the Cumberland Center at its regular meetings on the first Saturdays of March and September, or the first Fridays of June and December. In order that the Outreach and Support Committee may review applications before Board action, applications should be submitted one month prior to the quarterly regular Board meetings.

    If you have questions or need help with filling out the application, contact Leslie Lytle at sllytle@blomand.net or (931) 598-9979.

    CCJP Project Funding Application

    Please copy this application and paste it into a Word document. Before responding, please read the guidelines carefully.

    Name of Project:

    Individual or group making request:

    Person responsible:
    Address:
    Telephone:

    E-mail:

    Does your organization have a Federal Identification Number? Yes No

    If so, what is the number?

    The project is: New/Continuing

    Beginning date of project:

    Expected duration:

    Project description (Include brief history and community/volunteer involvement, if applicable. Will the project need on-going funding? If so, what are your plans for continued financing? Be specific, include as much space as necessary.):

    Project goals (Be specific, include as much space as necessary):

    Request is for $

    Project needs (estimated costs)

    Materials:

    Salaries:
    Travel:
    Overhead:
    Other:
    Please include project budget from previous year if applicable.

    Identify present sources and amounts of funding:

    Identify funding request made of other sources:

    Signature of Applicant:

    Position held:
    Date:

    If project funding is awarded, the recipient must send a progress report at the end of six months and a final report when the project has been completed, along with an expense report (including receipts) specifying how the funds were expended.

    Mail project funding application to:

    The Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace
    P.O. Box 307
    Sewanee, TN 37375

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    Date Rec’d____________ Committee Action_____________ Board Action____________
    Check Sent_____________ Six Month Report___________ Final Report_____________

    Guidelines and Application for Project Funding updated December 2007